Need Help with a Troll, my first online Transaction gone bad...

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Pavarotti4
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Need Help with a Troll, my first online Transaction gone bad...

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It all started with a private message on theAnandTech forum, and he decared his deal for the extra monitor he had. I
responded, traded information gave him my email, and cell
phone #. We then continued to talk the next day, of 05/16/05
and worked out a deal over AIM, Email and finally the phone for
a good 45min. He sold me on the idea of Western union, and
as I didnt know any better this being my first online trade I went
for it hook line and sinker.. We agreed that I would send money
first, and he would send monitor the second he recieved the
money. He picked up the money from western union in
Altamonte, FL @ 8:16am (eastern standard time I believe) and
then finally emailed me that afternon @ 1:38pm and said "In a
little bit of a hurry to get to the airport. Will have tracking # for
you as soon as Fedex arrives on daily route to pick up and
assigns one. Will get back to you with the #. Didn't want to keep
you waiting"

This is the last communication i have had with him. He will not
respond to my private messages, my emails, and he has
disconnected his cell phone that he used to speak with me on.
The number for that is 407-462-2203 ( I looked it up on the
internet and found that is cellphone was carried by the carrier "Florida Cellular Service, INC. PCS out of Winter park, FL, which is only a few minutes away from where he picked up the money @ a western union in the town of Altamonte,FL.


Please is there anything and of you can do? he has been a member here at AnandTech almost 5 years, (http://forums.anandtech.com/tombstone.a ... leID=31400) so i feel as though they must have his IP, or something. I have the local police and the internet FBI, on the case, but little has been done, and im waiting for reponses from both, and I feel something else could be done, before he slips away. I was buying a 2405FPW 24" Dell Flat screen LCD from him for 812 dollars......

This is all the information I have on him, other than emails and a some other stuff I don't want to disclose on the board, as I don't know what's allowed...

All info I have on "Wizzah" (AnandTech forums) Claims to be Dave Riche.
Instant Messenger Name: Pearljampants
Picked money up from Western Union in "Altamonte, FL"
Cell phone # I talked to him on: 407-462-2203
Possible alternate phone # friend looked up who lives in area: 407-xxx-xxxx, (same city the money was picked up in) - im afraid to call with my area code on it, so he doesn't know i have it.
Claimed to be 24 living with girlfriend.

Cell phone i talked to him on extra info:
Carrier
FLORIDA CELLULAR SERVICE, INC. PCS
City
WINTER PARK
State
FL
Service Type
Cellular

References he gave, that responded once, but not the next 3 times when I tried to find out more about him. Each of these HAVE to be him.

ScottMartinburg@aol.com
uphereinmytree@email.com
WholesalepCParts@aol.com

His other emails:
pearljampants@yahoo.com
daveriche@cfl.rr.com
Rmenkins@mail.com

He claimed to send through fedex, but never gave a tracking #, and i callled fedex 10 times and no package is in my name, coming to my address or been sent on the 16th of may.

Eugene Police dept Claim # XXXXXX

812 bucks is a lot to lose.. ya know.
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Post by Invisible Evil »

Im sorry to hear about this, and im sure if something can be done it will be.

Did he offer any information to you in ref. to his "heatware" I know you are new to trading but maybe this rings a bell.

also check out this site, [url]http://www.trollhunters.com,[/url] and the trading guidlines here, this will give you some tips on this not happening again. Good Luck.
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Post by eGoCeNTRoNiX »

I think you may want to allow some more time for receipt. Depending on the shipping company it could take a little while longer. Also, if he was on the way to the airport, maybe he's not been able to get in touch with you. His phone appears to be PCS which if it's like PCS down here it's pre-paid so he may be out of minutes. PM me his user name if you can please..

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I have already PMed at AT...nothing. I have emailed...nothing. I have called...nothing. I have sent mails to the "refs"...nothing.
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Post by Pavarotti4 »

Thanks for all your work LutaWicasa. I really appreciate it. He claimed to be using fedex and I have talked to fedex almost a dozen times now, and nothing is being sent, has been sent in my name or heading to my address that we talked about. This guy def. covered his tracks, with the airport lie, the western union... he knew what he was doing... Any other ideas?
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You're in good hands with Luta.. LMK if you need any help Luta..

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Post by Pavarotti4 »

Hey guys.... It's been almost a month now.... no word from the feds, the cops, any other ideas?
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Post by LutaWicasa »

Originally posted by Pavarotti4
Hey guys.... It's been almost a month now.... no word from the feds, the cops, luta or nothing.... any where else I can go? :(


No word from me?
Ya don't bother reading PMs then, eh? :w hat
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Post by Pavarotti4 »

Sorry Luta! I thought we were emailing!!!
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Post by Pavarotti4 »

Hey guys, Luta found a bunch of people on Hard forum who had the same guy rip him off with the same line and product.... maybe the people of this sight should put him up on the troll list that you guys have????

Check out the link and read on.... if you guys think of anything after reading about all these people please let me know!! Thanks,

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